1. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT MEETING JANUARY 13, 2016 6 PM

2. AGENDA Welcome Back! Welcome, Ruth! New Division 1 Staff/Fac/Chairs/Coord’s From Gloria Liu—STEM Announcements First Paycheck for Adjuncts Important stuff handout highlights Copying Reminders Pregnancy Accommodations Meeting Attendance Compensation/Commitment Student Engagement Project Adjunct Office Space for Meeting with Students Guest Speaker: Michael Anthony Breakout locations 2

3. WELCOME, RUTH! 3

4. NEW DIVISION STAFF –Jessica Abbinante, Senior Office Assistant 4

5. NEW FACULTY Biology –Chase Williams – A&P –Andre Campos – Biology (Genetics) 5

6. NEW CHAIR/ COORDINATORS Biology Department Chair Nicole Perry Biology Department Co-Coordinators Paul Gulezian Kristi Zenchak 6

7. CONGRATULATIONS! To Kristi Zenchak for receiving a grant from the Illinois Community College Faculty Association 7

8. CONNIE CHURCHILL REMEMBERANCE GATHERING Connie Churchill Remembrance Gathering Friday, January 15 10a - 12p GL Hills Funeral Home 745 Graceland Ave Des Plaines 8

9. STEM NEWS Upcoming STEM seminars "A Cure for Sickle Cell Disease" by speaker Santosh Saraf, MD, UIC - Tue., Feb. 23 at 1pm in Room 1610 and streaming live in Room C240 unconfirmed: Linda Biedrzycki, medical examiner - tentatively in April STEM Research posters Skyway STEM Poster Competition - April 22 at Waubonsee Community College Abstracts due March 5th. 9

10. STEM NEWS 10 STEM Research projects for Spring 16 CHM200 with Chad Landrie on Modern Synthetic Methods in organic chemistry ENG200 with Dr. Helen Skop on recycling wasted heat to renewable energy ENG200 with Angelo Gero on Robotics INS200 with Larry Tomczyk on the Internet of Everything CSC200 with Kamilla Murashkina on Solving math Problems using C++ Volunteers are needed for: 1.Saturday, March 19th (DP) Oakton Regional Science Olympiad 2.Saturday, Apr. 2 (DP) Science + Engineering Festival 10am to 2:30pm 3.Saturday, Apr. 16 (DP) Tech Savvy from 8:30 - 4. CONTACT GLORIA LIU (glorial@oakton.edu) if interested in volunteeringglorial@oakton.edu

11. ADJUNCTS: FIRST PAYCHECK Is… January 29 th, 2016 11

12. IMPORTANT STUFF HANDOUT: A FEW HIGHLIGHTS Send your syllabus and office hours form to Division 1 office staff, at Division1office@oakton.edu and to your chair/coordinator. Division1office@oakton.edu Submit lab schedule to your respective laboratory assistant. (Biology, Physics, Earth Sciences only). Make sure your D2L shells are ready and active by 1 st day Be ready for StudentsFirst Alerts and respond. Late registration permits Contact your chair/coordinator to express interest in subbing during the term (to get HR paperwork going early) Class cancellation website (see email from Julia Gray) Specific reminders for each discipline (see end of document). 12

13. COPYING REMINDERS Large copy jobs should NOT be completed on the copiers in the SHC. Our fall 2015 usage was similar to spring 2015. Please make every effort to send large jobs, in particular, to the copy center. Ask if you need assistance with copy center requests. Please email all copy jobs to copy center 48 hours in advance. 13

14. PREGNANCY ACCOMMODATIONS Title IX Syllabus statement: “If you are pregnant or become pregnant during the semester, you have the option to meet with me to discuss accommodations that may be necessary. It may not be possible to grant accommodations after the fact, so it is better to prepare in advance for any possible scenarios.” 14

15. MEETING ATTENDANCE COMMITMENT (OPTIONAL) An adjunct faculty member must commit to attending a minimum of 66% (6 of 9) of the meetings in a semester. The adjunct will be paid 0.25 LHE for meeting attendance including one 1.25-hour orientation week department meeting and eight (8) department and division meetings per semester. 15

16. MEETING ATTENDANCE COMMITMENT (CONT) 1)If you do not choose to sign the commitment form, you will still get paid for the Orientation Week meeting at 0.022 LHE per hour. 2)If you do sign the commitment form, you will not get paid separately for the Orientation Week meeting. 3)If Affiliated, N/A 16

17. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT PROJECT Faculty Project on Student Persistence through Classroom Engagement (partial description; some items not listed below) Instructors will learn the names of students as quickly as possible and create community in the classroom by having students learn one another’s name Instructors will schedule a 15-minute conference with each student during the first three weeks of the semester. (We strongly suggest that you offer student some kind of credit for attending these conferences.) Instructors will present requirements clearly and set high academic standards. However, instructors will have no policies that can doom students to failure for a few missteps. Instructors will make an appropriate assignment as early as possible in order to give students early feedback. 17

18. OFFICE SPACES FOR ADJUNTS TO MEET WITH STUDENTS Adjunct faculty may reserve the spaces/offices below to hold one-on-one meetings (or small group meetings) with students. **You do not need to be a part of the project to reserve these spaces. However, they are to be used for meeting with students.** Lee Center – Conference Room 140 (there is a computer in there now!); –Reserve through the Division 1 office Main DP Building – 2106(S), 2108(D), 2110(S), 2112(S), 2114(S), 2118(D) [S = smaller; D = larger] –Reserve through Ad Astra, Requesting a Room Reservation* (requires 24 hour advance reservation) OR via sign-up on the door (<24 hr notice) SKOKIE - They are working on finding a designated space; for now, reserve B209, B202 through faculty support office 18 *Detailed instructions for using Ad Astra for this purpose will be emailed/posted in a separate document.

19. MEDICAL BRIGADES TRIP Oakton will be taking a group of 40 students and faculty to Nicaragua for their first medical brigades trip in May 2016 Kristi Zenchak and Chris Feighery will be leading the trip Requests for medical supplies, medications and donations 19

20. GUEST SPEAKER: MICHAEL ANTHONY Cultural competency and the classroom 20

21. PHYSICS, EAS, CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY BREAK OUT SESSIONS Physics – SHC 141 Earth Science – SHC 137 CHM - SHC 156 BIO 101 – SHC 333 BIO 106 – SHC 335 BIO 121/122 – SHC 331 BIO 231/232 –SHC 360 BIO 251 – SHC 353 21